robonerd

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by robonerd 4y ago
Whoa, anime is real!
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by robonerd 4y ago
> The obvious side effect I can see is that plastic will no longer be super-durable and plastic goods used outside may now start to "rot". When left outside, most plastic goods degrade after a few years of solar UV exposure.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Focusing on the structure of vocal sequences, we analysed 4826 recordings of 46 wild adult chimpanzees from Taï National Park. If this same analysis were conducted with other populations of chimpanzees as well, could it be determined
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by robonerd 4y ago
This is the premise of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World . Dinosaurs and other ancient beasts kept isolated in the crater of an ancient volcano, the slopes of which are almost impossible to get over.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Most of these are just "do a thing you can already do with money, but shittier"
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by robonerd 4y ago
It's also a method of making yourself seem authoritative or knowledgeable without having to prove it. It implies that you did your research, but you aren't going to prove it because everybody else needs to do the same for themsel
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by robonerd 4y ago
If you put youtube-dlp on youtube as a video, make sure to use youtube-dlp to it up.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Use fertilizer for the blasting; two birds with one stone.
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by robonerd 4y ago
If ski-feet walkers made sense, I don't think they'd be gated by electrification. That seems like a job for hydraulics.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Though admittedly one is a ton of work to get) fast travel networks, Four; silt striders, boats, and mages guild are straight forward, but propylon chamber are a pain in the ass.
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think most people who ridicule Bing have never used it enough to know any of that. They used it maybe once or twice, found the results subpar and took that as confirmation of what they were already inclined to believe: 'Another s
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by robonerd 4y ago
Boston itself was great, but Diamond City seemed undeserving of the name to me. It's just a handful of people. Also the setting of known size, the baseball diamond, throws off my suspension of disbelief that maybe distances and popul
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by robonerd 4y ago
> However, towns with 300 houses with different variations of the same vendors and assets would not be immersive to most modern players. Less immersive than an ostensibly grand city that only has a handful of named NPCs and a few guard
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by robonerd 4y ago
FWIW, DaggerfallUnity has a (poorly documented) feature to swap in much smaller dungeons. https://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?t=1689 (I really can't stand forum-as-documentation...)
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by robonerd 4y ago
Transparency is key. If the filtering is transparently disclosed on the results page with a note to the effect of "We've excluded results we consider to be Russian propaganda" , then it all feels on the level and understand
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by robonerd 4y ago
> you have to question why DDG even exists. Because Microsoft's reputation is lower than dirt and that's probably a big part of the reason why so many people mock Bing and refuse to even try it.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> USA-ians This is never going to catch on, except in Latin America and with trollish Europeans baiting for responses online. Said outloud it sounds like "U.S. Asians", which is just going to make people confused. Nobody act
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by robonerd 4y ago
Surveillance capitalism erodes expectations of privacy. Eroded expectations of privacy in turn normalize government surveillance. Normalized government surveillance erodes expectations of privacy, which in turn normalizes surveillance cap
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by robonerd 4y ago
People who are complaining often aren't soliciting advice and don't welcome it if offered. I think the "damn that's crazy" responses generally come from people who are aware that offered help won't be warmly r
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by robonerd 4y ago
As often as not, those are precisely the people using these weapon words.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Youtube comments are useless for both criticism (generally censored, either by the video creator or by youtube itself) and praise (virtually always vacuous.) The only thing they are good for is adding context or relevant anecdotes. E.g.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Toxic has become an autological word; that is to say, the figurative use of 'toxic' is toxic.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Not to mention tracks have to slide sideways to turn and that is bad for your topsoil. It's unusual and perhaps not suited to large tracked vehicles, but there is an alternative to using differential track speed for turning: tra
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by robonerd 4y ago
I think you read more than he said. I'm not sure what Animats meant, but I don't think he said whatever you're responding to.
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by robonerd 4y ago
Being clunky is the point. The idea is that clunky phrases are harder to use as slurs, interrupting the euphemism treadmill.
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by robonerd 4y ago
You're using the past tense, but even today they're fractured. 24% of white evangelical protestants are pro-choice; 60% of white (not evangelical) protestants are pro choice, and 66% of black protestants are pro-choice. If we na
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by robonerd 4y ago
Did she say the reasoning was wrong, or merely that it wasn't ideal? As far as I know, she took umbrage with Roe v Wade being physician focused rather than woman focused. In other words, that the provides for a physicians right to p
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Christian people [...] look at the idea of legislating morality as counter to the basis of their religion Isn't reforming pagan Rome essentially the foundational act of the Christian religion? Christ critiqued the system and
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by robonerd 4y ago
That answers little. What constitutes harm is subjective (and obviously political.) It varies greatly depending on who you ask and where you're at.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Or do I misunderstand, and they derived this right from some other amendment or combination of amendments? Yes, they derived it from the 14th Amendment's Due Process clause.

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